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Clive Owen to star in "Children of Men"
POSTED ON 04/28/05 AT 8:30 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Clive Owen will star in "Children of Men" for Universal Pictures, with Alfonso Cuaron ("Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban") attached to direct the feature.

Based on the book by P.D. James., the film takes place in the near future where mankind is unable to reproduce and word that the youngest person on Earth - 18 years of age - has died. Amidst the chaos, a former radical (Owen) has been assigned the task of protecting the most sought after person: the first pregnant woman in 20 years.

The project initially was scripted by Paul Chart and then rewritten by Mark Fergus and Hawk Otsby. Cuaron had rewritten it with his writing partner Timothy Sexton and David Arata.